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http://www.ssrn.com/rss/en-usThu, 23 Mar 2017 03:12:20 GMTeditor@ssrn.com (Editor)Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:12:20 GMTwebmaster@ssrn.com (WebMaster)SSRN RSS Generator 1.0New: Dormitory Management and Boarding Students in China’s Rural Primary SchoolsPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether an in-service life teacher training program can improve boarding students’ health, behavior, and academic performance.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial to measure the effect of life teacher training on student health, behavior, and academic performance among 839 boarding students in ten central primary boarding schools in Shaanxi. And the authors also tried to identify why or why not life teacher training works. Both descriptive and multivariate analysis are used in this paper.
Findings – The authors find significant improvements in health and behavior. Specifically, compared to boarding students in control schools, 15 percent fewer students in treatment schools reported feeling cold while sleeping at night. The results also showed that student tardiness and misbehaviors after class declined significantly by 18 and 78 percent, respectively. However, the in-service life ... http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2937676
http://www.ssrn.com/1576210.htmlWed, 22 Mar 2017 13:11:16 GMTNew: The Effect of Maternal Migration on Early Childhood Development in Rural ChinaNearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age to estimate the effects of maternal migration on development, health, and nutritional outcomes in the critical first stages of life. We find significant negative effects on cognitive development and indicators of dietary quality. Taken together with research showing long-term consequences of early life insults, our results imply that, although the reallocation of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China’s prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a significant human capital cost for the next generation. http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2890108
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